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Colored Hofstadter butterflies

Mathematical Physics 2007-05-23 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics math.MP

Abstract

I explain the two colored butterflies shown in figures 1 and 4, their thermodynamic significance and their duality.

Cite

@article{arxiv.math-ph/0308030,
  title  = {Colored Hofstadter butterflies},
  author = {J. E. Avron},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math-ph/0308030},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

8 pages, 3 colored figures, 1 bw figure. Conference proceedings. An error in the statement of the Gibbs phase rule has been corrected